Lehanna and the Giant Ego (Odhran)

Being your independent was never something that intimidated or worried her in the slightest when she was proceeding with the occurrences from which she had in her last foster home. The only thing that did worry her was that others would not treat her like a normal adult, and in some aspects she was correct. Some of those apartments and hotels would never let her try and stay or take in residence because of her age, despite any and all documentation she kept on her in a small messenger bag she carried on her. Very few things ever got under skin one way or another as someone who not only lived alone, but traveled some as well. She could very easily recall having scarred several “predators” from attempting to do anything ever again. Scarring such types with burning out one or both eyes, searing and disfiguring the look of the skin and even some muscle of others. Not all of them after her, but it wasn’t hard.

Not many want to mess with a smaller looking girl with a large sword. It was a huge help to carry this sword she’d beaten the god of fire for in their last meeting. Her looking over her shoulder for him was something she very highly practiced. Never knowing when he could be done licking his wounds to come after her was a frightening thought at first. However, after some time it just became somewhat easier to be for the idea that she was more and more comfortable with her ability and self training of using this sword, using her magic, and fighting bare handed even. Lehanna was making sure she was ready for them anytime, anywhere. And not just them, but other mages. After all, she was by technicality a freelancing mage now. One that paid her bills in the light work she did.

Morgate town was as hellish as some travelers warned her it was. Somewhat desolate, filled with the air of lingering radioactivity and smoldering activity. The enjoying scent of barrel lit fires had her a little hungry, admittedly, however the young teen tried to push through as quick as possible. This place was known for being a town filled with the spineless. Those who would ambush a single person for a few measly trinkets and jewels. God only knew how easy they would think a single girl traveling on her lonesome would be like. The slayer paused as the sound of rubble being dragged under the pressure of a moving object caught her hearing. Turning around, she had seen a pair of males standing in a slightly elevated section of rubble. After a moment to adjust to facing the sun once again, she had seen that one of them had actually been a female, which at first struck her as odd, but only shrugged.

”Prepare for trouble!”
“And make it double!”

The pair began to sing much like this, their mantra continuing on in this manner of one sentence at a time.

”To denounce the evils of truth and love!”
“To extend our reach to the stars above!”


”Umm, not to be rude, but...”

”Then shut your trap, twerp and let us finish! It’s quite rude to interrupt your elders! Now then... Jasmine!”
“Jeremy!”

At this point, the young brunette’s eyes settled away from the pair, sighting the issue she wanting to bring up, but then sighing and looking up, holding one hand out, palm up waiting until they finished.

”The bandits of Morgate here to make your pockets deflate!”
“Surrender now or prepare to die!”


”...Ok, so can I now interrupt you?” She spoke up, watching them strike overly unnecessary poses as if they were trying to be flashy and intimidating at the same time. ”Fine! What could he do important that you felt you had to interrupt the great Jasmine and Jeremy?” The female of the pair had spoken out, the venom of anger hissing in her tone of voice. Lehanna smirked and the black fire would mold into a small ball within the palm of her hand, igniting from out of thin air. ”You’re standing over and exposed gas line. Run, and I won’t blow up half of this town. But, think fast because of the gas fumes hit the flames, it won’t matter at all~” A coy smirk appeared on the young girls face, eyes narrowed in a small grin of victory in positions. The two looked down, seeing the pipe and finally catching a whiff of it before they would point at her. ”We’ll get you next time then! Just watch yourself, child!” Jeremy yelled out before the two jumped back and out of her sight. ”I AM NOT A CHILD!” She shouted in a quick burst of anger, ready to throw her fire out of spite just for it.

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”My lord... what a couple of buffoons. I swear, if I have to hear another of those stupid introductions I’m going to REALLY lose faith in humanity...” She muttered aloud to herself, sighing and extinguishing the fire in her hand from before. Sure, she had bluffed the gas leak, but they’d weren’t the brightest bulbs in the box to be able to realize that before realizing what would happen should her bluff have been truth. In reality, the moment she lit a fire in her hands, the area would have imploded from the gas. The fact that they did not realize that only proved how ignorantly stupid they actually were, on top of just being plainly idiotic in the first place. Thankfully, that wouldn’t happen again. Maybe the word will get around and she won’t be bothered through the rest of the town. At least, that was what she had hoped would happen. She wouldn’t be expecting what was coming to occur, let alone just after dealing with tweedle-dee and tweedle-dumb.

Sadly, that didn’t happen. A males voice spoke up and caught her before she could walk away and already she could tell this wouldn’t end well for her mental capacity. Pushing the earth up to create a large area for him to boast his ego only furthered that assumption and surely it didn’t go unnoticed how correct she was in the insinuation. She didn’t even crack a smirk at the fact he had put those two from before to shame with a single line. Not only did this turn from a single person to additional people, each of them were significantly different beings. Two of them made of candy, one of them cosplaying a humanoid scorpion, the mutt, then the loud mouth of the group. A man who decreed himself the god of Celestial Spirits. Frankly, the idea he did so gave her a point in which she really was tempted to yell, but she was trying so hard to keep herself under control.


”For the love of god... Is every inhabitant of this town as stupid as the next?” She yelled out, her arms thrown up in the air in complete lack of care anymore. With a long sigh, the brunette lowered her hands to her chest, folding them while overlooking the bunch. ”A girl just wants to get to the next town, and she has to deal with delinquents, bad cosplayers, and fake gods... this is lovely.” With a small sigh, she had started to turn around, refusing to pay him any mind and try to move on with her life. She didn’t want to fuel his ego any more than his cohorts had done for him, but it seemed that was going to wait. The bad cosplaying scorpion male had approached her, which at first had her curiously confused, but soon her face flushed, teeth baring as she began to growl in anger. Before her chance to react came, another of these miscreants came forward and she had interrupted, mentioning yet another person whom caused him to plead to the candy girl named Sweetie. In the midst of it all, Lehanna let a hard, left jab to Scorpio’s manhood, dropping him to the ground. ”Your outfit is anatomically incorrect for a scorpion, and you’re a pervert.” She spoke in a much more relaxed tone of voice now, as well as logically.

The chaos of all these different creatures around her was becoming a little more than she’d like to deal with. She was used to quieter, more controlled environments and this was so drastically out of her league. While the group had been arguing with one another, the silent dog approached and attempted to lick her head, to which she pushed the dog away. It had good intentions but... now was not the time... finally, the ringleader of this circus had come off his pedestal and approached her, wanting to start again? No no. Another mantra and she would start setting things ablaze. Fuck that. ”Yes, I called a bluff about the gas main. I’m not suicidal enough to risk blowing myself up. But, idiots are easy to fool.” The young slayer turned around and began to walk away, not saying another word. However, she stopped and turned part way around, looking past the hilt of the sword on her back. ”My name is Lehanna, in case you’re wondering and if you have no other business with me, I have to go over to the next town so I can register in time for the school there.” She informed him, hoping that he would give up, but someone like him? Probably not...

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The young girl was becoming a bit baffled at the sight of what was going on. The perverted cosplayer she punched for his actions. It would have been one thing had she of been actually appearing to look of age, but then again that would solve her whole life issues in one fell swoop, wouldn’t it. Giving a small sigh, the brunette simply watched as the rather struggling male whined and groaned in pain, complaining and albeit rolling around. ”I didn’t even hit you that hard...” She replied bluntly, a cold glare looking down on him. She cared little for the fact he tried to state something about Zodiacs, like the constellations. It wasn’t until he spoke to a male whom seemed to drop keys onto the ground did she piece them together. Celestial spirits and their keys were supposed to be a rare and powerful magic, much like the one the small slayers possessed. All she could do was shake her head in disappointment at him. He was putting them to shame, really.


”You’re more of an Ursa Major than a Scorpio.” She replied despite not being in the one he was speaking to at this point, she felt hit would harder adding insult to injury by degrading his role of a celestial spirit and equating him to that of a pedobear. It was unsure whether the joke would be gotten or not, however she wasn’t concerned about that. She wanted to however scold this pain in the neck of a summoner for not controlling his spirits better. However, that didn’t seem to be something for her to worry about for long. He seemed to add one more spirit to his squad of hooligans, sans the only one whom seemed to carry an air of decency, then there was Sweetie, followed by Scorpio. Still, as this newest spirit joined the flock, she flew the coop and went off on a rather calm tangent at the stranger and then towards the spirit lying in the dirt at the brunettes feet.

Being shot a smile rather than an arrow at this point felt like a blessing compared to what this ridiculous spirit was going through, however she didn’t have much patience left. She had been halted by idiotic thieves, then this summoner, followed by the zodiac spirit. At this point, this was giving her a headache and it made her annoyed to have to deal with such idiocy, frankly. She could feel her IQ dropping the longer she spent around some of these people. While all focus had been on their own internal struggles, the teenage girl turned her back and began to walk off from them. She had places to be and a timed window to get there. If she missed this, she would have to wait at the least a month to get another opportunity to get a chance to join this place, so staying on track was crucial for her. If all of this even caused her 10 seconds of lateness getting in, she would be sure to make him pay for it... and his little zodiac too!

Instead, the voice of the new spirit called her by name, which got her to pause for a moment. The woman wanted to know why she was moving through such a place to go to a school rather than attend a closer —and by her approach of the phrasing, safer place of education. She turned around once more, her arms folding at her still developing chest and stared in silence for a moment. Do they deserve an answer? Well, perhaps one or two do... and she knew being rude to those whom did not deserve wasn’t warranted at all. ”Well, because the schools in those towns are subpar in their curriculum. I need to further my education in the best place I can, and my prior jobs allow me to pay for it with ease, so I’m not worried about that. The people around here are dumber than dropouts of elementary school. Relying on street smarts will land you jail, but I’m trailing from the topic here.” Lehanna let out a small sigh and refocused herself to the question. ”I am furthering my education at the best place I have been able to gain research on. Should I need to use magic to get there, so be it. Taking jobs along the way to ease my living situation upon arrival? A pure bonus.”

Another pause came from the younger girl, looking out towards where the last two thieves were and simply shrugged. ”A bluff has a higher probability if you have the right circumstances. Idiot A and idiot B probably had enough brain cells between them to write yo that mantra the night before they got into this. While your summoner is a complete moron himself for copying, I commend the on the spot ability to piece together something much more tangible than they did.” She rubbed the back of her neck, beginning to rethink the idea of having nearly blown up an entire town to keep two people from trying to make asses of themselves. In response to that, she began to blush at being called sweetie, her eyes shying away from the spirit while trying to not seem both mad and embarrassed at the surprise comment. ”Y-You can not call me something like that again, a-alright?” She asked, her voice littered with hesitation through pouting cheeks. ”But if you insist on traveling, can we please get a move on? I have a deadline to meet...” She was a little reluctant to do this, but enough of this summoners spirits didn’t deserve to be thrown the cold shoulder. The candy Knight was much among if not the primary cause of this, but having this new spirit only added to it.

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If she could get any angrier without fully expressing it in this moment, a vein would be throbbing in her head from this whole ordeal. Her glare had become a little more severe than before in the midst of Scorpio’s whining. Hearing how he was oh so insulted by her comparison had not changed her mind, but it had made her all the more angry as time went on. ”The only ‘great and wonderful’ thing about you is I’ve decided not to turn your crotch into a smoldering mess of burnt flesh and muscle.” She retorted, her glare aimed directly at the celestial spirit with no means of a joke or any look of a lack of seriousness in her directive. It’s true, however. If she truly were in a bad mood over it all, she could have just put the thing out of its misery so she could move on and everyone else in the future would be spared of his half assed attempts at a perverted personality. Then again, he had the moves of a 96 year old Parkinson’s victim standing in the brisk cold of Mt. Hakobe in the middle of winter.

With a bit more of an exacerbated sigh, the brunette simply turned her back towards the pathetic spirit. She was done with his antics and frankly another word from his mouth would just result in her doing something he may regret. She did look over to the newest spirit that had come forward... way too many spirits honestly, but she simply shrugged it off and allowed her to speak. Nothing she said really sparked any joy in her either honestly, but she was a little more tolerable than some of the others. ”You can stop calling me cute and sweet, for one.” She coldly commented back to the bow wielding woman. The longer she spent around this band of people was not only wasting her time, but at this rate her IQ would be in jeopardy of dropping too. Though she lightly flinched from the hand that placed on her head, ruffling her hair some, that was more of an unwanted tick she had from her last foster home. Bunch of magic hating pricks... oh well, she was far away from them and to her, that’s all that mattered.

Choosing to ignore comments was both hard and easy in this situation. Some warranted a snap or bite to get the point through, but others didn’t come off as necessary to even waste air on at all. In this case, it had been the spirit regarding her intelligence for her age, which came to no surprise to an extent. But, the curious spirit wanted to know more about her. In some aspect, she sounded comforting enough to speak to, but in her mind she had no idea what to regard this detailing to as anything less than “not worth ”I won’t divulge any of that... no offense.” A low grumble of annoyance left at the end of her reply. She didn’t want to be rude towards someone who was being so nice to her, but she was fed up with wasting time standing here. Though, respect quickly came and went with this one. She was on a roll of gaining her respect, and with one fell swoop of a joke, it was gone. Of course she understood the joke, she wasn’t stupid... but when the hand was extended, she only stared at it without saying a word and simply ignored it being there at all.

Now things began to feel like they were moving on. As the progress moved to get a move on from this place, the plans being made had turned into somewhat of an argument. The passive comment made towards the Candy knight about him being able to protect an “innocent, sweet maiden” as it was put had her face turning shades of red while she was trembling with the need to yell. Trying to hold herself back was getting harder, but these embarrassing comments were flustering her as much as they were pestering. There was always something she hated but couldn’t help getting flustered about being called by such adjectives. No matter how much she tried to mentally train herself, she couldn’t stop herself from being like that. With just a sigh, she turned to the rest of the group, partially geared to the summoner of this mass grouping as he had begun to declare his joining of this group. He would have to be, as anyone knew summons of any kind had to be within range of the summoner or they would be forced to be recalled.

A brow raised as Odhran began to uh.. demand a favor of her. To spread the word about this almighty person and the guild he was said to represent. Again the name Elysium came up and in her mind, she had pieced together the kind of guild this was and truly how much trouble she could be in should he choose to want her to join their cause. Now she had to be cautious... wonderful. Thankfully, he was so dense, it was unlikely he would come up with the idea on his own, but all of that stopped the moment he mentioned something specific... third place in the Miss Celestial Spirit contest? Her eyes sized the male up and down and then she just nodded to herself. ”Right... a second rate drag queen with a third place trophy. Got it.” She shrugged her shoulders, adjusting the strap that held her sword to her back and turned her back to him. ”Well Miss or mister, whatever. Start hustling or I’ll leave you behind.” She was hoping he’d change his mind about coming, but that would be impossible now that she challenged him like that.

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